Polish American

A TWISTED & DARK PARANORMAL SERIES He's a scammer. She's a psychic. It really doesn't get more complicated than that. The man of your dreams is usually just that….a dream. But what if he’s real? Mendesa is a young girl with a good head on her shoulders and big dreams. Sometimes they’re too big. As she’s navigating through life, she soon finds out that sometimes our dreams are bigger than us for a reason. Skot is everything your mama warned you about, wrapped in an Armani suit. He’s heartless and will stop at nothing to secure the bag. Even if means destroying the life of the ...

In this most recent offering from Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, A Letter to Mama and Other Uncollected Stories brings together nineteen stories that were translated in Singer's lifetime but left uncollected or unpublished. The stories were translated either by Singer himself or under his personal supervision, and appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, Paris Review, Tablet, Narrative, Jewish Review of Books, and American Scholar. Singer was recognized as a master storyteller. His mastery came not only from inborn talent, but also from edits and revisions. He was an artist ...

A TWISTED & DARK PARANORMAL SERIES He's a scammer. She's a psychic. It really doesn't get more complicated than that. The man of your dreams is usually just that….a dream. But what if he’s real? Mendesa is a young girl with a good head on her shoulders and big dreams. Sometimes they’re too big. As she’s navigating through life, she soon finds out that sometimes our dreams are bigger than us for a reason. Skot is everything your mama warned you about, wrapped in an Armani suit. He’s heartless and will stop at nothing to secure the bag. Even if means destroying the life of the ...

Are you sick and tired of not being able to learn Polish fast? Have you tried endless other ways of learning Polish but nothing seems to stick? Do you finally want to say goodbye to your tendency to "forget most of what you've studied" and discover something which works for you? If so, then you’ve come to the right place.

Many Americans labor under the misconception that the nation’s colonial and national heritage was almost wholly accomplished by an English migration, and the notion of early American diversity ends at an acknowledgment of the slave trade conducted between Southern buyers, Northern shippers, the African continent, and the Caribbean region. However, early America witnessed the development of New York by the Dutch, the southernmost regions by Spain, and what would become eastern Canada by the French after lengthy battles with Britain.

"Ameryka?ski Dom Wariatow" jest kontynuacj? mej poprzedniejj ksi??ki "Zakopia?skiego Domu Wariatów". Ka?de opowiadanie pe?ne humoru, ale te? refleksji. Wszystko toczy si? wokó? mieszkanców wielkiego, wiktoria?skiego domu, o nazwie "Silverstone", którego w?a?ciciele zamienili go w B&B i teraz spotykaj? najró?niejszych ciekawych, a czasem dziwnych ludzi, Polaków osiad?ych w Ameryce, Amerykanów od hippiesów do milionerów, podró?ników z calego ?wiata, jednym s?owem ca?? galeri? postaci.

Michael Hogan, as a poet and educator, has been gifted with friendships of fellow writers throughout most of his life. Three of these were Nobel laureates, still others household names: Seamus Heaney, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, Marge Piercy, Naomi Shihad Nye and Ray Bradbury, among a dozen others . What is surprising is what he manages to do with such experiences in this book. Through a series of narrations centered on wide-ranging episodes with other poets, the author distills a unique kind of ars poetica, one that is tied less to a traditional memoir, than to the impression these men ...

In the thrilling second installment of the "My Polished, Professional Thug" series, Skot, Mendesa, and the enigmatic Man are back with a vengeance. The story picks up where the first book left off, plunging readers into an electrifying narrative that explores the complexities of a world where psychic abilities and the criminal underground collide. Mendesa quickly finds herself entangled in a web of intrigue as her psychic powers lead her to an infamous scammer in the bustling city of Atlanta. As her connection with this enigmatic character deepens, the boundaries between right and wrong ...

When the greatest female mathematician in history passes away, her son, Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch, just wants to mourn his mother in peace. But rumor has it the notoriously eccentric Polish émigré has solved one of the most difficult problems in all of mathematics and has spitefully taken the solution to her grave. A ragtag group of mathematicians from around the world descends upon Rachela's shiva, determined to find the proof or solve it for themselves - even if it means prying up the floorboards for notes.

The Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his grandfather’s past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his forbidden heritage; a Mayan poet is torn between his studies and filial obligations; a striking young Israeli woman seeks answers in Central America; a university professor yearns for knowledge that he can’t find in books and discovers something unexpected at a Mark Twain conference.

In the winter of 1996, more than 100 women and men of diverse nationality, background, and belief gather at the site of a former concentration camp for an unprecedented purpose: a weeklong retreat during which they will offer prayer and witness at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform, while eating and sleeping in the quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews to their deaths.

Alexandra Ziolkowska-Boehm's "Open Wounds: A Native American Heritage" was inspired by her great uncle, sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski,who in response to the Lakota Sioux Indian Chief Henry Standing Bear's request "tell my story in stone", decided to sculpt Sioux Chief Crazy Horse from a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Ziolkowska-Boehm explores the real story of Crazy Horse, as well as the real story of the American Indians. She discovers the incredible role Indians played in the World Wars, and she also learns that Indians and their languages and customs are unique to each tribe.

These ain’t your mama’s Carpathians. In Iceland, the vampires are tall, blond, and environmentally-minded. They have protected their homeland for millennia from the insidious wearing of "dead man's trousers". The Necropants. Flayed from the skin of a corpse and steeped with magic runes, the long-hidden, but now discovered Necropants are but a precursor to the utter destruction of Iceland's pristine wilderness. Can Saber Evangelista look past profit and embrace her role in saving one of the world's last unspoiled wilderness areas? Find out now.